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CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2016 3

Hours before the deadline for our last issue, our publishing consultant Martin Nott emailed us a photo he’d just taken on his phone. Martin was in Cowes, watching the wooden boat he had been restoring single-handed for the past nine years burn to a cinder. “Not good here,” read his email. Next to Martin’s Sibbick- designed Witch (1902) was the Mylne Fedoa (1927). These alone would have been a huge loss, but it wasn’t long before we realised other classics were gone. Later I asked Martin how it felt to watch the blaze gradually engulf the boat that just the day before he’d been beautifully splining. Not a man given to overstatement, he replied: “Your knees go weak.” Others in Cowes lost businesses and livelihoods. Yard hands lost expensive tools. Our update on the fi re is on page 12. Martin tells the story of Witch in our next issue.

ROB PEAKE, EDITOR

HISTORY IN FLAMES

REGULARS 12. TELL TALES 18. US NEWS 29. SALEROOM 30. OBJECTS OF DESIRE 33. ADRIAN MORGAN

62. BY DESIGN 73. CLASS NOTES 74. NEW CLASSICS 77. GETTING AFLOAT 94. LETTERS 98. STERNPOST

CRAFTSMANSHIP 84. YARD NEWS 86. YARD VISIT: RUSTLER 91. BOATBUILDER’S NOTES 93. TRADITIONAL TOOL COVER BY: KEITH ALLSO

COVER STORY 4. MARGA An Olympic competitor in Stokholm, now racing in the Med COVER STORY 20. REBEL CLASS New GRP models join an inland class COVER STORY 34. SAILING MY BOAT WITH HER DESIGNER Designer Nigel Irens crews for Nic Compton on Nic’s new 22ft Romilly 40. HOLLOW SPARS’ HISTORY Part 2 of Th eo Rye’s expert history

48. WE MEET JONATHAN DYKE Th e man behind the East Coast Classic COVER STORY 52. EVENTS GUIDE 2016/ Classic regattas, rallies and gatherings worldwide COVER STORY 62. VAN DE STADT SLOOP Black Soo, his off shore planing boat

64. TOM CUNLIFFE Overseen by the skippers of the past COVER STORY 66. LOBSTER BOAT DESIGN From Maine fi shing to the mainstream COVER STORY 86. WE VISIT RUSTLER YACHTS A modern British yard working with traditional values

TOM CUNLIFFE SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE p 64

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